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MAIL BAG PASTBNING.

Patented Mar. 18, 1884.

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ROY B. SCOTT, OF DENTON, TEXAS, ASSIGNOR OF ONEFOURTH TO JOHN B.NICHOLAS, OF SAME PLACE.

MAIL-BAG FASTENING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 295,294, dated March18, 1884.

Application filed October 1B, 1383.

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Be' it known that I, ROY B. SCOTT, of Denton, in the county of Dentonand State 'of Texas, have invented a new and Improved Mail-BagFastening, of which the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription.

My invent-ibn consists of a chain iiXed to one side ofthe bag so as toswing on the lower edge, and having hooks, or, it may be, curved 1C orstraight studs, which are made to pass through eyes oi' the two sides ofthe bag and around or through another chain on the other side ofthe bag,making a very simple fastening that is equally secure as the staplefastening now in use and much more readily manniactured, as hereinafterfully described.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, iorlning part ofthis specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate con2O responding parts in all the igures.

Figure 1 is a side elevation of the bag, showing the chain having thefastening-hooks, and being arranged to swing'up and down on its loweredge to insert and withdraw the hooks.

Fig. 2 is an .elevation or" the reverse side of the bug. Fig. 3 is atopView; and Fig. 4 is a detail in section on line a; 5v of Fig. l, and onan enlarged scale.

On the side c of the bag I arrange the chain b on staples c, for a pivotwhereon the said chain may turn on its lower edge freely, and I attachthe curved hooks cl to the chain, said hooks being connected to the.chain ,by a straight shank,'e, transverse and parallel to the chain, andextending upward therefrom when thechain is swung up to the position forfastening the bag to the eyes falong the npper margins of hoth parts ofthe bag. these Shanks e the hooks are formed in a hal t'- 40 circle, andagain pass through eyes g of bot-h parts oi' the bag below the chains,also passing around the chain h, attached to the side i ot' the bag, andriveted to it at j. The eyes f and g are to be suitably hushed oreyeleted, for substantial construction and durability' of weer. It willbe seen that when the two chains From (No model.)

are connected at one end by the staple 7c, hasp m, and a lock, Z, thebag will be securely fastened, and that the operations of fastening anduufastening the bag can he very quickly performed by swinging the chainb on its pivotstaples c. The chain b will have a pivot stud,

n, at the end opposite to the staple m, for being pivoted to the ear-lugo or connected with Vany suitable fastening device.

I may substitute studs having heads and arranged to extend directlythrough the bag from the upper edge ot' chain l) and through holes ofthechain I?, which chain may then be shifted along the bag-beforeconnecting the hasp k 6o with chain b-to draw the chain along the studsand secure it under the heads ofthe studs by narrow slits extendingalong it from the holes through which the headsof the studs pass throughthe chain, this chain h in that case not being riveted to the bag, butsecured by staples, allowing it to slide along the side of the bag ashort distance. In either case the fastenings will beinserted andWithdrawn from the eye-holes of the bag by swinging the chain 7o b onits Vpivot-connections with the bag, which is the essential feature ofmy invention.

Having thus described my invention. what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The combination, with ainail-bag having eyes in the upper margin ofits month, of a chain hinged at its lower edge to the bag, and providedwith fastening devices projecting through the said eyes, substantiallyas herein 8o shown and described.

2. The chain b, pivoted to the part c of the bag, and having hooks d, incombination with the parts ce and i, and with the chain It, attached tothe part t', said parts a-and 1J of the 85 bag having eyes fand g,substantially as described.

ROY B. SCOTT.

Writnesses:

J. T. BARTORFF, C. J. SHAPARD.

